These stories are not related. And I don't own these characters or the show blah blah blah. All mistakes are mine, and I'm sorry if I made a mistake.


She had to get them back. Who knew what they were going through, no one had been there for ever twenty-eight years. So after a little persuasion on her part she got Jefferson to make a new hat. He said it might not work but she had to take the chance. Spinning the hat again and again wishing it would work even for a brief moment. She needed hope and that was what the hat could provide. Hope. She spun the hat for hours, tears streaming down her face by the end of it. Not knowing what else to do, she worked on a way of her own.

The potion could take time, but the hat wasn't going she worked and worked until that was all she was doing. No one noticed her slow decent into madness, not even her son or herself. After weeks of trying to perfect the potion she finally had it. She looked towards the hat and went to pick it up and put the potion in when something went terribly wrong.

It started with Henry as most things do. He had started to build a new castle one fit for a prince. When a ripple in the water caught his attention. Thinking Emma and Snow had found a way home he moved closer. The closer he got the more he doubted his theory. Which he was right to do. A hand clasped over his mouth and drug him into an unseen boat.

"Look, love, we caught a child."

"It seems we did, didn't we?"

"Should we keep him? I think we should, he is cute and we might be able to use him."

"Now, dear, we don't even know who he is."

"I'm Henry Mills, the son of the mayor, and when she notices me missing you are going to be in big trouble!"

"Oh, why is that, she can't do anything."

"Yes, she can, she's the Evil Queen."

"Dear, it looks like we have caught the right one. It seems to me this is my grandson."

"Well then, shouldn't every young man spend time with his grandmother?"

"They should and I have waited this long."

To say he was frightened would be an understatement. He was caught between the two with no way to escape. Then Charming had to go and get himself in trouble. After that the town had a mind of it's own. No one noticed a mad queen and her lost son.

Regina poured the potion into the hat and gave it a good spin. For once the spin worked and the portal opened. The evil queen laugh rose through her throat once more. Swirls of purple danced around her and the hat. It was working and she knew just knew that they would emerge any moment. They did and came face to face with a mad women in a town full of psychos.